The Quest For Domestic Relations Law In Uganda.A Case Study As To Whether Its Anaccessity Or Wastage Of Time And Resources

ABSTRACT

The research entitled the quest for domestic relations bill was aimed at the following

objectives to establish and investigate inadequacies in the methodologies employed in the

initial processes of the domestic relation laws reforms, to assess the shortfalls within the

advocacy strategy employed from the time the domestic study report was made public in

1998 until the current period,to investigate and establish the possible extraneous factors

responsible for the delay of the passing of the DRB such as political, cultural, customary,

social - economic factors and religion among others, to suggest possible alternative

strategies to achieve the passing of the Domestic Relations Bill. This dissertation

examines in detail the so far ill-fated journey of Uganda's ambitious Domestic Relations

Bill ("DRB"). Generally, the Bill seeks to improve and harmonise, to some extent,

domestic relations between men and women under various marriage and 'quasi-marriage'

regimes which subsist in civil, customary and Islamic law. Using several interwoven methodologies, especially the Women's Law, Grounded Theory and Human Rights

Approaches, the writer gathers (using a variety of methods) and analyses a vast anay of relevant data from the many parties involved in the birth (in 1994) and progress (or, rather, lack of progress) of the Bill until its lapse before Parliament in 2005. The writer suggests resuscitating and promoting its proposed reforms in diverse ways in the hope that they may eventually become law.